it's not that you're getting toothpaste inside the scratches, it's the fact that toothpaste is basically polishing paste and you need to add a little then buff it out with a cloth just like any other polishing job. It's smoothing out the surface, taking away a thin layer of plastic and making the grooves less pronounced. So it's not the toothpaste that's doing the "magic" It's the polishing. No need to use that much toothpaste, just put a pea-sized drop on the cloth and spread it and with a dry, clean cloth buff it out as best as you can. Hope this clears things up!
@@XboxBoomer117 i tried it way later but it didnt really work, but i do doubt the exact way i did it, im afraid i sanded down the disc instead of fixing it lol
Just a FYI: I've used a micro polish for cars with great results. I've even used Brasso on really bad disk to get them to read.
it's not that you're getting toothpaste inside the scratches, it's the fact that toothpaste is basically polishing paste and you need to add a little then buff it out with a cloth just like any other polishing job. It's smoothing out the surface, taking away a thin layer of plastic and making the grooves less pronounced. So it's not the toothpaste that's doing the "magic" It's the polishing. No need to use that much toothpaste, just put a pea-sized drop on the cloth and spread it and with a dry, clean cloth buff it out as best as you can. Hope this clears things up!
It's just abrasive, using any car polish would be better as it has grades of abrasiveness, there's nothing 'magic' about toothpaste.
@DavidB-rx3km for some reason I thought that car polish would be more aggressive/abrasive than toothpaste.
@@gevelegian no you can get really abrasive to stuff that feels like face cream!
Definitely trying this.
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@@Casp3r.aka.Droid. Its a FRESH take. Came out looking MINTY.
Yea, this is also the advice Netflix would give you when you reported a faulty disk before sending it back.
If this is true, that's awesome
I had to buy multiple copies of the same disc as a kid after they stopped working ):
Too bad I didn't know this method, thanks xbox boomer!
@@geuxmer2355Sad, I've done it many times myself. No problem, hope it helps
@@XboxBoomer117 i tried it way later but it didnt really work, but i do doubt the exact way i did it, im afraid i sanded down the disc instead of fixing it lol
Never works for me 👎 my copy of Spyro almost stopped working when i did this.
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go to a game store to fix it do not do this lol
do not do this lol 😂 😂